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Lee Gowan is the author of the novels Confession, The Last Cowboy, (published in France as Jusqu’au bout du ciel), and Make Believe Love, which was nominated for the Trillium Award for best book in Ontario.
Dec 9, 2021 · It’s complicated, as they say, but, Gowan adeptly directs this cast of disparate characters with their strange plights, and the often witty dialogue reveals why he’s such a revered writer. Upon the birth of a daughter, Bentley’s wife says: “She looks like a live roast.”
Aug 29, 2021 · Lee Gowan’s new novel is an audacious sequel to Sinclair Ross’ prairie classic, As for Me and My House. The Beautiful Place * is about a man who is in trouble in love and work—a darkly funny cautionary tale for our times.
From the publisher: Lee Gowan’s new novel, an audacious sequel to Sinclair Ross’ prairie classic, As for Me and My House, is about a man who is in trouble in love and work—a darkly funny cautionary tale for our times.
A “mostly forgotten provincial figure” and “[k]ind of Group of Sevenish” painter who abandoned his wife, Ross’s grizzled character almost steals the show when Gowan’s likably conflicted narrator meets him in 1986. Gone is Ross’s chilly and withdrawn Prairie minister.
Lee Gowan. Nelson Lee Gowan (born in 1961) is a Canadian novelist. Gowan grew up on a farm near Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and studied at the University of British Columbia, where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing.
by Lee Gowan The word “cowboy” comes freighted with so many different meanings. For immigrants from Europe, Asia, or Africa, it can be romance personified, a somewhat updated version of the medieval knight, out riding the range, communing with nature on horseback, entirely one’s own man.
